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Santa Coloma de Queralt is a municipality in the comarca of the Conca de Barberà in Catalonia, Spain. It is located in the north-east of the comarca. The 4 medieval gateways to the previous city have been preserved. The gothic church of Santa Coloma dates from the fourteenth century.

There are settlements in the area to the town that they date of the Neolithic, but the first center of population of Santa Coloma is Iberian.

The first document that helps make reference to the population of &quotSancta Columba&quot it dates from 976 and locations it in the territory of the &quotmarca, in entrance of the limits of Spain&quot, that is, land of border between the Christian and the Muslim Catalonia.

Practically for the duration of a thousand decades Santa Coloma was the parental property of the barony of the Queralt, one particular of the feudal people much more powerful of Center Ages, firm allied of the count of Barcelona. Of this period of time are the major monuments: component of the castle, the wall (of which 4 portals stay), Jewish Jewry, parish church… The Jewish community, represented an essential proportion of the population. The Jews dedicated by themselves to commercial pursuits and ended up never an object of persecution.

For the duration of sixteen and seventeenth centuries the castle went becoming to stately residence and was modified with Baroque and Renaissance variations.

In the national wars of the 17 and 18th hundreds of years Santa Coloma believer to the Catalan institutions constantly stayed. Throughout the War of the Reapers (Segadors), the town declared &quotenemy of the homeland&quot the count of Santa Coloma and viceroy of Catalonia Dalmau III of Queralt. Afterwards it put by itself beneath the safety of the king of France and renounced to name Queralt to be named Santa Coloma &quotthe Royal&quot.
In the War of Succession, the city declared adherent to archduke Charles of Austria and collaborated in the battle in opposition to the Franco-Castilian troops of Philip V. Right after the defeat of 1714 and during all the 18th century, the town seasoned a strong growth of the population, who provoked the disappearance of the partitions on constructing the outskirts. Right now some towers are visible even now and they subtract 4 portals intact.

In the 19th century and till mid twentieth the textile business intended an critical financial progress and demographic of the population, which increased in more than a thousand inhabitants and arrived at its historical highest of three.500 inhabitants in 1932. During the war of 1936-1939, the town changed its historical name for that of Segarra de Gaià.